Shakespeare By The Sea Festival

St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Workshops - Saturday and Sunday, May 22-23
The 2010 casts prepare for the season

 
Janine Pearson and Ian Watson from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival spent two-days leading voice and text workshops for our 2010 company.

We were pleased to provide these workshops to our current casts free of charge, as a reflection of the value we place on mentorship, our appreciation of our volunteers, and our desire to support our actors in their artistic development.

The workshops were supported by the Canada Council and the Cultural Economic Development Program of the Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.



 Instructors

Janine Pearson (B. Mus., BFA, A.Mus., ADVS) is an internationally recognized voice and text coach working with actors, singers, teachers, legal professionals and clergy. As the Head of Voice and Coaching for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, she coordinates a team of specialist coaches in the spoken voice, singing, speech, dialect, movement, and the Alexander Technique, who work to serve the acting company and directors in meeting the physical and vocal demands of staging both classical and contemporary plays. She has been involved wth numerous actor-training programs, most notably the National Theatre School of Canada, where she served as Head of Voice and Associate Artistic Director under the directorship of Perry Schneiderman. In response to an overwhelming need to provide basic voice studies to schoolteachers and lecturers, she founded the Voice Care and Development Workshop for Educators© in 1993 and has subsequently worked across the country in all areas of education, from elementary to university.

Ian Watson is one of the most inspirational and practically-minded Shakespare text teachers in Canada. An apprentice of master teachers David Latham, Michael Mawson, and Bernard Hopkins, Ian has taught and coached actors in some of the finest acting programs in Canada, including the National Theatre School of Canada, where he was an acting teacher from 1997 to 2001, and Ryerson Theatre School, where he is currently a part-time professor of Shakespeare. Ian is also a frequent guest instructor at George Brown Theatre School and the University of Waterloo. Since 2001 he has been a text teacher and coach for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. He also teaches for the Festival's education department. A talented actor, Ian studied at the Playhouse Acting School (Vancouver) from 1979 to 1981. He began his career as a member of the National Arts Centre's acting company, playing major roles in more than a dozen productions. He spent four seasons as an actor at the Stratford Theatre Festival, working with directors John Hirsch, John Neville, Bernard Hopkins, John Wood, Richard Monette, and David William. He has also acted in many other theatres across Canada.


         
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Shakespeare By The Sea Festival Inc.

Office:
199 Water Street, 2nd Floor

Mailing Address:
c/o 11 Bavidge Street
St. John's, NL  A1A 5B9  Canada

Email: sbts@nfld.com

Phone: (709) 722-7287 (seasonally)

The Shakespeare By The Sea Festival is the longest running summer theatre event in the St. John's area.
Since 1993, the Shakespeare By The Sea Festival has been performing the works of that famous Bard in the scenic outdoors of Newfoundland and Labrador.